Court Painting In England From Tudor To Victorian Times
1980 / English / PDF
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Portaiture began as we know it in Tudor times and the book spans three centuries from Holbein's great portrait of Henry VIII to Landseer's mournful Queen Victoria, seated on a pony held by John Brown. Most of the chief artists of any period - Hilliard, Lely, Kneller, Cooper, Zoffany, Van Loo, Ramsay, Gainsborough - were connected with the Court, and had a title such as 'The King's Limner' or 'Painter-in-Ordinary to the Queen', and a salary. This authoritative work provides a comprehensive history of court painting and the royal painters.
